Media and public policy / edited by Robert J. Spitzer.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-228) and index.

Introduction : defining the media-policy link / Robert J. Spitzer -- Media impact on the political status quo : what is the evidence? / Doris A. Graber -- Newsmaking and policymaking : steps toward a dialogue / Julio Borquez -- Impact of commissioner background on FCC decisions, 1975-1990 / Wenmouth Williams, Jr. -- Bringing the distant close : learning about South Africa from the news / Marion Just and Ann Crigler -- The media, economic development, and agenda-setting / Michael R. Hawthorne -- The media, the right to privacy and judicial policymaking : rethinking conceptual foundations / Dean E. Alger -- Media images as environmental policy / Jerry F. Medler and Michael J. Medler.

The advertising-driven "new" mass media election and the rhetoric of policy issues : the 1990 Gantt-Helms senate race / Montague Kern -- Credentialing experts : the climate of opinion and journalist selection of sources in domestic and foreign policy / Robert Sahr -- Reporting AIDS in the United States and Britain : what reporters know and what they think the public knows / Holli A. Semetko and Edie N. Goldenberg -- Mass media and U.S. foreign policy : a mutual exploitation model of media influence in U.S. foreign policy / Patrick O'Heffernan.